Townshend v. . Frommer’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 1960 · most notably In Re the Estate of Fair (1901), Campbell v. . Stokes (1894)
2 district · 59 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Goebel v. . Wolf · Downing v. . Marshall · Gilman v. . Reddington · Stevenson v. . Lesley · Genet v. . Hunt
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our Revised Statutes, while abolishing all express trusts, except those particularly enumerated, still permitted effect to be given to the intentions of a grantor by declaring that, when others were attempted, they should be effectuated through the medium of a power in trust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. Hill
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.